Michael B. Jordan is turning new fantasy epic Black Leopard, Red Wolf into a movie
Aux Features FilmIt seems we’re not the only ones quite taken with Marlon James’ absorbing new novel Black Leopard, Red Wolf: Like many an epic tale before it, the book is being adapted into a movie. If you’ve read even the initial opening section of the story, then you already know this is going to be no small feat to pull off.
Setting aside the difficulty of transposing James’ lyrical prose and often complex imagery into cinematic form, it’s just a big book to tackle. Luckily, someone who knows a little something about tackling challenging adaptations is here to make it happen: According to The Hollywood Reporter, Michael B. Jordan is joining forces with Warner Bros. to produce an adaptation of the sprawling mythical fantasy. There’s no word yet on whether Jordan plans to star in the film as well, though it’s not hard to picture him in the lead role. (And if he doesn’t care for that role, there’s literally dozens of others in the “Those Who Appear in This Account” list of dramatis personae at the start of the book.)
Black Leopard, Red Wolf is set in an alternate-reality version of Africa in which a team of mercenaries hired by a slave trader are dispatched to locate a missing boy. It’s the first in a planned trilogy of books by James, though it will be interesting to see if James himself will be involved in adapting the screenplay for the big screen. No other writer has yet been hired to write the script, and no director is yet attached. And definitely no word yet on whether the movie will include the scene in the first few pages where—spoiler alert!—the main character literally fucks a magic old crone into being young again.
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And definitely no word yet on whether the movie will include
the scene in the first few pages where—spoiler alert!—the main character
literally fucks a magic old crone into being young again.
Well. Damn it. How is this handled in the book? I was thinking about picking up, but I’m struggling to think of how many men can write something like that without it being… ugh.
A dude fucks a weretiger too…in tiger form.
Does it turn into a werekitten?
This book sounds fucking amazing already
He’s a leopard and it’s complicated.
It’s almost literally, “So I fucked her” and then it moves on. It’s reads like a passage to be paid to get to the underworld. Not kid friendly, but not gross gross.
Thank you, that helps.
The description here is crude. It’s to gain passage to the underworld.
As Dex said, it probably takes up a maximum of two lines in the book. There’s quite a bit of pretty out-there stuff in the start of the story that is breezed through very quickly.
Thanks. Out there is fine, it was just the connotations of a man writing a book where a man has sex with a woman to make her younger that had me concerned this may not be for me.
It doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence that the challenging adaptation he tackled before was the very bad Fahrenheit 451 movie.
I started on the book a couple of days ago. To say that it is going to be a tricky story to adapt is something of an understatement.
The book is been out for like 3 days, damn, that was fast, I’d assume people involved would read a book before launching on a multi million dollar adaptation ^^
But it seems like it’s great, so cool ^^